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FLORIDA CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS MUSEUM DEDICATED

--Highlands Hammock State Park ceremony honors CCC alumni for building state parks--

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A newly-renovated Florida Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Museum at Highlands Hammock State Park was dedicated in a ceremony Saturday, November 1 at the park, which is in Sebring, Fla.

The museum's "re-dedication"; was part of the 2003 National Association of Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni (NACCA) national reunion which celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Depression-era CCC, created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U.S. Congress to provide conservation-related work to unemployed young men.

Highlands Hammock is one of eight Florida State Parks originally built by CCC members, forming the nucleus of today's award-winning Florida state park system. The entire statewide system of parks includes 157 parks covering more than 600,000 acres. Some 18.2 million persons visited Florida's state parks last year.

Photo Gallery

A group of young men in the 1930's surrounding a Botanical Garden sign. 1930's era photo of CCC men working on Wild Orange Grove Trail. 1930's era photo of CCC men working on Wild Orange Grove Trail.
1930's era photo of CCC men potting plants in a nursery building. 1930's era photo of a man forming concrete posts inside of a building. 1930's era view of the park's scenic Loop Drive under dense tree canopy.
1930's era photo of CCC men chow line take from the fire tower above. 1930's era photo of CCC men constructing the refreshment building. 1930's era photo of twenty or so CCC men in the back of a truck.
Former CCC man John Puccerella in white pants and black jacket. CCC man John Puccerella chops down a tree. CCC tree cutting crew poses outdoors.
CCC man Louis Molici holds a wild cat they caught in the early 1930's. Tree surgeons work on one of the ancient trees in 1930. CCC man putting out a brush fire in the park in the early 1930's.
CCC men clearing woods to make a roadway in the early 1930's. Fact sheets with dollar amounts of CCC work impacts in the US.  

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